BIB_ID
363653
Accession number
MA 49.68
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1790 Apr. 6-9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 25 and 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Ellisland / near / Dumfries."
Docketed.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
General Sir John Wallace; by descent to Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace; bequeathed to his brother, Colonel F.J. Wallace; acquired by Robert Borthwick Adam before 1898; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913, possibly from the London dealer Pearson.
Summary
Describing visits from her children and grandchildren; saying that she is glad to hear [William] "Corbet can do all [Burns] want[s]"; mentioning Jenny [Janet] Little and composing a poem for her; writing three days later to tell Burns that Corbet "is soon to be taken from his present line to be appointed to a Collector's office"; commenting on other things that have gone wrong recently, including her attempt to "reclaim" a "fair penitent" and a fire alarm that "fluttered [her] a great deal"; asking him to write with news of his children.
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